My big brother, DEL DAKO

It’s not easy growing up in the shadows of a big brother who’s an international celebrity like Del. Please to enjoy with me now this review of his work he just sent me translated from the original internet of Portugal:

As any smoker and convicted, I have always defended the thesis that exercise is bad for your health. And I’ve had a number of concrete evidence that my thesis is correct. What kind of calamity or natural disaster could cause a great baritone saxophonist let go his instrument and started playing the dark vibes? If you thought of lung cancer caused by smoking, is totally wrong. Del Dako, an excellent Canadian baritone, was forced to give up the saxophone after a terrible bicycle fall. Encouraged by his wife Sylvia, an accomplished mountain biker, Dakota decided to accompany her on healthy ascents and descents of huge muddy banks. As one would expect from an accomplished saxophonist, one fine morning, Dako has been designed at high speed into a giant cliff holes. The result was that at the end of the journey pleasant, her nose and mouth were stopped in the neck, which resulted in severe injuries to two vertebrae in the neck. The prize? A body completely paralyzed. After several years of treatment, Dako recovered much of their movements, though he was unable to continue his long and successful career as a saxophonist (he totally lost the mouth). Influenced by Charlie Parker (Dako began playing loud), Serge Chaloff and Earl Seymour, Dakota had before cycling, a footprint fluid and elusive, a characteristic uncommon in the average baritone saxophonist, often heavy and slow. His sound, falsely delicate, sometimes reminds us of an accelerated Mulligan, although his grip on the cuff is still, as far as I could hear (only one album), limited. For friends sailors, left the band nostalgic Dick’s Feelings, Balancing Act removed the album, recorded in 1990 for Sackville. With him are Richard Whiteman (p), Dick Felix (b) and Mike McClelland (d). And do not forget: wives and bicycles are bad for health.

Como todo fumante inveterado e convicto, eu sempre defendi a tese de que exercício físico faz mal à saúde. E tenho tido um bom número de provas concretas de que minha tese está correta. Que tipo de calamidade ou desastre da natureza poderia fazer com que um excelente saxofonista barítono largasse seu instrumento e passasse a tocar o tenebroso vibrafone? Se você pensou em câncer de pulmão, ocasionado pelo tabagismo, está totalmente enganado. Del Dako, um excelente barítono canadense, foi obrigado a largar o saxofone depois de uma terrível queda de bicicleta. Estimulado por sua esposa Sylvia, uma exímia praticante de mountain bike, Dako resolveu acompanhá-la em saudáveis subidas e descidas de imensas ribanceiras enlameadas. Como era de se esperar de um exímio saxofonista, numa bela manhã, Dako foi projetado em altíssima velocidade num gigantesco precipício esburacado. O resultado foi que, no final da aprazível trajetória, seu nariz e sua boca foram parar na nuca, o que implicou em lesões severas em duas vértebras do pescoço. O prêmio? Um corpo totalmente paralisado. Depois de vários anos de tratamento, Dako recuperou boa parte de seus movimentos, embora ficasse inapto para prosseguir com sua longa e bem sucedida carreira de saxofonista (ele perdeu totalmente a embocadura). Influenciado por Charlie Parker (Dako começou tocando alto), Serge Chaloff e Earl Seymour, Dako possuía, antes de andar de bicicleta, uma pegada fluida e arisca, característica pouco comum nos saxofonistas barítonos médios, quase sempre pesados e lentos. Sua sonoridade, falsamente delicada, por vezes nos faz lembrar um Mulligan acelerado, embora seu domínio sobre o improviso ainda seja, até onde pude ouvir (apenas um álbum), limitado. Para os amigos navegantes, deixo a faixa saudosista Dick’s Feelings, retirada do álbum Balancing Act, gravado em 1990 para a Sackville. Com ele estão Richard Whiteman (p), Dick Felix (b) e Mike McClelland (d). E não se esqueça: esposas e bicicletas fazem mal à saúde.

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Feast your eyeballs! ~ NSFW!! ~ let’s go…

TUMBLR!!!

tumblr is niagara falls torrent visual feast that is completely redefining the way of the web ~ while facebook’s nasty privacy invasions and eMail fuckery etc. have been bad enough ~ with everfresh Tumblr rolling in like a tsunami it’s starting to look like F-Book’s prudish morality will be it’s death knell.

While I have been neglecting space on WordPress and blogspot I have started taking advantage of tumblr hosting… hit the ‘archive’ button for a quick overview.
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Meanwhile, after some major art inspiration and travel trips I have also been cleaning house and working on several new projects.  Michael Comeau carted off a 34 page excerpt of selections from my Big Boy Essence, for a new Parade of Humanity anthology he’s editing (more details to follow).

I have also shot a few segments of video tape for an audio/video podcast with bill bissett in which we talk about our new music release Nothing Will Hurt and discuss plans for some upcoming live shows. We have plans to shoot another segment and start editing tomorrow.

Depending how all this pans out ~ have been discussing the idea of embracing the new electronic podcast/web technology  in tandem with ancient traditional paper technology for a new upcoming edition of Casual Casual magazine!

 

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Gathering Voices ~ NOTHING WILL HURT (If We Do It Right)

Penn Kemp will feature Bill Bissett  on an upcoming show this July and debut some tracks from our forthcoming album release  “NOTHING WILL HURT”

CD artwork ~ in progress

On The Air: Alternating Tuesdays 6:30 pm - 7:00 pm

London Poet Laureate , playwright and performer Penn Kemp presents her new poetry show, Gathering Voices.  Sound operas, writing exercises, poems in translation…  Sound Opera is a new form Penn developed in performance and recording with collaborators in a desire to lift poetry off the page to the stage.  Sound Opera is based on text but it expands poetic possibilities to include voice, music and computer manipulation to express narrative when emotions burst the seams of print.

as seen on Tumbr & SoundCloud

The deadline to decide is today!

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Picture Box Rocks!

Here’s the listing for Casual Casual on Picture Box site  with a lovely mention in Picture Box’s weekly roundup on Dan’s Blog.

Such good company! ~ I am loving the whole Picture Box catalogue… especially Takashi Nemoto Monster Men Bureiko Lullaby which I can not recommend highly enough…(ask for it by name)

I have been reading and savouring and studying master heta uma artist Nemoto San’s masterpiece slowly slowly ~ shocked and awed by the strange and alarming parallels with my own (forthcoming) Big Boy Essence

Picture Box totally rocks ~ order awesome art, books and DVDs online like Keiichi Tanaami’s A Portrait of…,   Kramer’s Ergot!  Don Van Vliet?  and check out their smorgasbord of online blogs and ongoing art and photo series ~ super “LIKE” tweet and share these treasures~ and don’t miss Dan’s trip to Tokyo, with recent photos of King Terry and Ebisu

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Casual Casual books en route to PictureBox Inc

a box of Casual Casual books has been making it’s way to PictureBox Inc

~ see the pictures here

I’m just back from Tucson after a slightly extended vacation getting ready to add more book works online  ~ in the meantime, you can place your orders for some fabulous CC back issues with Dan Nadel and the good folks at Picture Box

petedako.ca © PETE DAKO, 2012   The Official Websites  petedako.com 

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If only i had heeded Third Eagle’s Prophecies And Warnings about the DICKS in the Denver airport!

DIA DOA?

in the Airport like a bad Tom Hanks movie (Terminal, to be specific).

Third Eagle of  The Rapture Apocalypse  a.k.a. “Co-Prophet of The End Times” was 100% right about the DICKS in the Denver airport! Arrived huffing and puffing, with 15 minutes too spare at the gate but the doors were locked – and they had oversold the seats on the plane ~ then we were locked in the Airport like a bad Tom Hanks movie (Terminal, to be specific).

This was day two of unanticipated extra travel time after we were diverted from Arizona to Denver ~  now adding AIR CANADA to my special “Bell Canada” list

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One great thing about Blogs…

Home is where the heart is…
Meet the old Blog… same as the new Blog

No Ticky ~ No Laundry

YAY! I got .swf conversion going out of Flash into a javascript version – but now what? Boring! CLICK ~ save it for the airplane ride? ~ Now I must make sure my laundry’s done, packing list packed, passport’s ready & ticket printed  ~

Mr. Pete is Arizona bound!

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Hello world! from petedako.com

WordPress is installed ~ I got my stolen domain name back and hopefully this goofy .gif version of the flash animation will work… unfortunately, it’s still not working here on the Mac in this instance anyway unfortunately . Tomorrow I will dig in and see if I can convert them all into better looking formats that actually work on all machines and  iOS devices perhaps with html5.  Like SO!  *<— Then thursday it’s on to the Arizona desert where this website will take you through a portal,  by way of the Solar Eclipse.  Onward and upward!

Special thanks to Jim Munroe at No Media Kings for hosting and helping me see to it that petedako.com is up and running again! Stay tuned for breaking news as it comes in…

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